August 25 - 31 each year is Black Breastfeeding Week, a week designated to recognize, share, and celebrate the challenges and successes unique to Black parents who breastfeed. On top of the typical challenges all people can experience during breastfeeding, Black parents often have the odds stacked against them with serious issues that include higher mortality rates, higher rates of disease, lack of diversity in breastfeeding support professionals, a lack of peer role models and community support, and unique cultural barriers (Source: Black Breastfeeding Week)

If you're planning a late summer getaway by plane and need to travel with breast milk to or from your destination, make it a smooth(er) trip by learning the laws, potential challenges, and tips. Traveling by plane with stored breast milk should not be an issue, but despite protections and laws in place, people sometimes experience difficulties. The information below will help you travel by plane with breast milk as prepared as possible.

It's March 6 -- Happy IBCLC Day! Wait, what's an IBCLC? Good question! IBCLC stands for International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Translated, that means: professional breastfeeding super helper. More technically, an IBCLC is a healthcare professional who specializes in breastfeeding and

Fact: breastfeeding shouldn't hurt. Also fact: pain is highly subjective. In other words, how people register and experience what is painful and what is not can vary widely from person to person. So in some ways, describing how to recognize and remedy painful or sore nipples during breastfeeding can

Was 2018 the year you learned you were pregnant? Was it the year you gave birth? Maybe it was the year you started trying to get pregnant, or the year you marked a breastfeeding milestone of 3 months, 6 months, or even a year! No matter how you found Giving Birth With Confidence, we're glad you stop

In many ways, Google has been life changing -- it has changed how we find and retrieve information, how we acquire knowledge, and how we answer and solve questions and problems, from the smallest to the most profound. When it comes to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding, some might say

The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) is an independent nonprofit organization that works to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in the United States. They are made up of more than 50 national professional, educational, and governmental organizations that share a common mission,

The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) is a network of 27 nonprofit milk banks throughout the United States and Canada. Our milk banks screen milk donors and provide pasteurized donor human milk to babies in need.

We are in the midst of Black Breastfeeding Week, which closes out a full month of breastfeeding celebration and awareness. Now in its sixth year, Black Breastfeeding Week continues its strong and very much needed presence.

When you breastfeed, your body burns about an extra 500 calories per day. For some, that means a quicker than normal baby weight loss. For almost everyone, it means that breastfeeding makes you hungry. Very hungry. But what should you eat? The quick answe

About the Blog Manager

Cara Terreri is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, certified DONA doula, and a professional writer, editor, and content specialist. She has been part of the Lamaze International team since 2004. Cara manages and writes for the Lamaze parents’ blog, Giving Birth With Confidence. She lives and works in the Orlando, FL, area with her husband and three children.